Experimental filmmaker Nina Menkes is developing a new film examining the Israel-Palestinian conflict through the Greek legend of Theseus and the Minotaur.
Nina Menkes is developing a new film examining the Israel-Palestinian conflict through a loose re-telling of the Greek legend of Theseus and the Minotaur set against the backdrop of the Old City of Jerusalem in contemporary times.
Entitled simply Minotaur, the film revolves around a Christian Palestinian working with tourists in the Old City, who embodies both Theseus and the Minotaur, which manifests itself as a Hebrew-speaking beast that attacks visitors in the crypt of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. He has a mother called Pasiphae and falls for the beautiful foreign waitress Ariadne.
“First and foremost it’s an emotional story about the process of confronting the self and not living in denial which I think is a big issue around here… but it’s also a political story about here the country...
Nina Menkes is developing a new film examining the Israel-Palestinian conflict through a loose re-telling of the Greek legend of Theseus and the Minotaur set against the backdrop of the Old City of Jerusalem in contemporary times.
Entitled simply Minotaur, the film revolves around a Christian Palestinian working with tourists in the Old City, who embodies both Theseus and the Minotaur, which manifests itself as a Hebrew-speaking beast that attacks visitors in the crypt of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. He has a mother called Pasiphae and falls for the beautiful foreign waitress Ariadne.
“First and foremost it’s an emotional story about the process of confronting the self and not living in denial which I think is a big issue around here… but it’s also a political story about here the country...
- 7/17/2014
- ScreenDaily
Phantom Love
"For three decades filmmaker Nina Menkes has made poetic, evocative films that have placed her in the forefront of American experimentalists," writes Kevin Thomas in the Los Angeles Times. "She's a visionary who trusts in the power of image, movement and composition to communicate narrative, meaning and emotion." The retrospective Nina Menkes: Cinema as Sorcery opens at UCLA's Billy Wilder Theater tomorrow with Dissolution, her "most accessible but also most accomplished work."
The La Weekly's Karina Longworth: "In Queen of Diamonds (1991) — my pick for the must-see rediscovery of the program — Menkes's sister and frequent collaborator Tinka Menkes plays Firdaus, a bored, beautiful blackjack dealer at an off-Strip Vegas casino…. Sixteen years later, when Menkes returned to the theme of a statuesque, obsessively manicured brunette sleepwalking through a casino job in the La Koreatown-set Phantom Love, she'd take a tonal and visual U-turn. Phantom's hazy black-and-white cinematography and...
"For three decades filmmaker Nina Menkes has made poetic, evocative films that have placed her in the forefront of American experimentalists," writes Kevin Thomas in the Los Angeles Times. "She's a visionary who trusts in the power of image, movement and composition to communicate narrative, meaning and emotion." The retrospective Nina Menkes: Cinema as Sorcery opens at UCLA's Billy Wilder Theater tomorrow with Dissolution, her "most accessible but also most accomplished work."
The La Weekly's Karina Longworth: "In Queen of Diamonds (1991) — my pick for the must-see rediscovery of the program — Menkes's sister and frequent collaborator Tinka Menkes plays Firdaus, a bored, beautiful blackjack dealer at an off-Strip Vegas casino…. Sixteen years later, when Menkes returned to the theme of a statuesque, obsessively manicured brunette sleepwalking through a casino job in the La Koreatown-set Phantom Love, she'd take a tonal and visual U-turn. Phantom's hazy black-and-white cinematography and...
- 2/21/2012
- MUBI
Moving Pictures asked Yaniv Rokah to sit down with writer-director Nina Menkes ahead of this weekend’s Downtown Independent screenings of “Dissolution” and “Phantom Love.” Rokah, an L.A.-based actor, has interviewed Paul Haggis and written reviews for Moving Pictures and is in talks to co-produce Menkes’ next film, “Heatstroke.” He caught up with the auteur for coffee as she prepares to move to Cairo.
By Yaniv Rokah
(June 2011)
Experimental filmmaker Nina Menkes’ work has been compared with some of the all-time greats, including Antonioni, Cassavetes and Lynch. The Los Angeles Times called her “one of the most provocative artists in film today.”
Predominately exploring the feminine psyche through films such as “Massaker” (Fipresci Prize recipient at the Berlin International Film Festival), “Queen of Diamonds” (nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival), “The Bloody Child” (a Sundance Film Festival and Locarno International Film Festival selection...
By Yaniv Rokah
(June 2011)
Experimental filmmaker Nina Menkes’ work has been compared with some of the all-time greats, including Antonioni, Cassavetes and Lynch. The Los Angeles Times called her “one of the most provocative artists in film today.”
Predominately exploring the feminine psyche through films such as “Massaker” (Fipresci Prize recipient at the Berlin International Film Festival), “Queen of Diamonds” (nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival), “The Bloody Child” (a Sundance Film Festival and Locarno International Film Festival selection...
- 6/3/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Moving Pictures asked Yaniv Rokah to sit down with writer-director Nina Menkes ahead of this weekend’s Downtown Independent screenings of “Dissolution” and “Phantom Love.” Rokah, an L.A.-based actor, has interviewed Paul Haggis and written reviews for Moving Pictures and is in talks to co-produce Menkes’ next film, “Heatstroke.” He caught up with the auteur for coffee as she prepares to move to Cairo.
By Yaniv Rokah
(June 2011)
Experimental filmmaker Nina Menkes’ work has been compared with some of the all-time greats, including Antonioni, Cassavetes and Lynch. The Los Angeles Times called her “one of the most provocative artists in film today.”
Predominately exploring the feminine psyche through films such as “Massaker” (Fipresci Prize recipient at the Berlin International Film Festival), “Queen of Diamonds” (nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival), “The Bloody Child” (a Sundance Film Festival and Locarno International Film Festival selection...
By Yaniv Rokah
(June 2011)
Experimental filmmaker Nina Menkes’ work has been compared with some of the all-time greats, including Antonioni, Cassavetes and Lynch. The Los Angeles Times called her “one of the most provocative artists in film today.”
Predominately exploring the feminine psyche through films such as “Massaker” (Fipresci Prize recipient at the Berlin International Film Festival), “Queen of Diamonds” (nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival), “The Bloody Child” (a Sundance Film Festival and Locarno International Film Festival selection...
- 6/3/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
I'll leave the commentary on poster design to the far more knowledgeable Adrian Curry, but in rounding up notes on events happening around the Us (outside of New York, which'll have its own roundup in a bit), a handful of posters caught my eye, starting with this one for Other Cinema's Fujiyama in Red, a live program aimed at raising funds for Japanese Tsunami Relief and named "after the 1990 Kurosawa movie that foresaw the catastrophe." Tomorrow night in San Francisco; scroll down for details.
Brian Darr: "It's hard to imagine a better time for a San Francisco movie lover to partake in the by-now almost subversive act of watching a great classic film in a cinema, than when our city's architectural pride and joy, the Castro Theatre, devotes its screen to a 70mm film series, as it will for eight days starting this Saturday night, when it plays West Side Story,...
Brian Darr: "It's hard to imagine a better time for a San Francisco movie lover to partake in the by-now almost subversive act of watching a great classic film in a cinema, than when our city's architectural pride and joy, the Castro Theatre, devotes its screen to a 70mm film series, as it will for eight days starting this Saturday night, when it plays West Side Story,...
- 6/3/2011
- MUBI
The lineup at the 2009 Downtown Film Festival-Los Angeles will range from Jeffrey Jay Orgill's "Boppin' at the Glue Factory," a dark comedy about a junkie nurse working the night shift of a convalescent hospital, to Barbara Ettinger's doc "A Sea Change," about the acidification of the oceans. The fest runs from Aug. 12-22 at the At&T Center Theater.
"The year's feature film line-up reflects themes of personal discovery and societal angst -- perhaps a sign of the times. How the individual films tackle these broad themes is wildly divergent, from illuminating nonfiction to dark comedies and unconventional dramas," festival programming director Roger M. Mayer said.
Other films on tap include Mickey Blaine's "Commit," David Russo's "The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle," Richard Sears' "In the Drink," Gabriel Sunday's "My Suicide," Philippe Diaz's "Now & Later," and Nina Menkes' "Phantom Love."...
"The year's feature film line-up reflects themes of personal discovery and societal angst -- perhaps a sign of the times. How the individual films tackle these broad themes is wildly divergent, from illuminating nonfiction to dark comedies and unconventional dramas," festival programming director Roger M. Mayer said.
Other films on tap include Mickey Blaine's "Commit," David Russo's "The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle," Richard Sears' "In the Drink," Gabriel Sunday's "My Suicide," Philippe Diaz's "Now & Later," and Nina Menkes' "Phantom Love."...
- Quick Links Complete Film Listing: Premieres Dramatic Comp: Docu Comp: World Dramatic Comp: World Docu Comp: Spectrum: Park City at Midnight: Short Film Programs January 18 to 28, 2007 Counting Down: updateCountdownClock('January 18, 2007'); Artist Spotlight: Pierre Huyghe a collection of short films by the French multimedia artist rarely seen outside of museum or art gallery contexts.The Last Dining Table (South Korea), directed and written by Gyeong-Tae Roh, an evocation of the issues of environmental pollution and family values decay in a minimalist/surrealist style. Offscreen (Denmark), directed by Christoffer Boe and written by Boe and Knud Romer Jorgensen, about an actor making an intensely private home movie about himself. World premiere.Phantom Love (U.S.), directed by Nina Menkes, a surreal tale about the personal liberation of a woman trapped in a family. Shot in Los Angeles and Rishikesh, India. World premiere. Slipstream (U.S.), directed and written by Anthony Hopkins,
- 1/18/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
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